Links for 2-1-2013

The $58,500 that Senator Bob Menendez paid as reimbursement for two trips to the Dominican Republic on Dr. Salomon Melgen’s plane represented 18% of his net worth. Dr. Melgen has had repeated run-ins with the IRS, which placed multi-million dollar liens against him on multiple occasions. The liens did not prevent Dr. Melgen from ramping up his political contributions.

Mark Steyn’s column for this week is called “Containing Hagel”: “This week, an over-sedated Elmer Fudd showed up at the Senate claiming to be the president’s nominee for secretary of defense, and even the kindliest interrogators on the committee couldn’t prevent the poor chap shooting himself in the foot.”

Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, South Carolina, and Michigan are all courting Remington Arms and its parent company, trying to convince them to move away from Ilion, New York, where they employ more than 1,300 people.

McLaren released an unusual ad yesterday – it stars the ghost of the team’s founder, Bruce McLaren, who died in a testing accident in 1970: